ISLESFORD, Maine -- Ashley Bryan, a prolific and prize-winning children’s author and illustrator who told stories of Black life, culture and folklore in such acclaimed works as “Freedom Over Me,” “Beautiful Blackbird” and “Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum,” has died at age 98.Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing announced that the longtime Maine resident died “peacefully” Friday in Texas, where he had been staying with relatives.“An early, quiet, and potent force in bringing children of color and issues of racial diversity into the canon of children’s literature, he was committed to opening the eyes of children of all backgrounds to a wide range of themes through poetry, folktales, spirituals, and biblical narratives,” the publisher’s statement reads.Bryan was a Harlem native who showed an early talent for drawing and for a time was the only Black student at the art school at Cooper Union in Manhattan. He served in a segregated military unit for two years during World World II, an experience he recounted in his memoir “Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace,” and resumed his art studies after the war.Bryan worked on more than 70 books and received numerous honors, including Coretta Scott King Awards — given for the year’s best work by a Black author or illustrator — for the folktales “Beautiful Blackbird” and “Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum.” He also received two lifetime achievement prizes: the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now known as the Children’s Literature Legacy Award) and the Virginia Hamilton award.Survivors include his brother Ernest, and “many cherished” nieces and nephews, according to Simon & Schuster.“I am deeply saddened to learn of Ashley’s passing,” Gov.
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Dawson Demitri Haibon has a nice ring to it! Ashley Iaconetti & Jared Haibon revealed the name of their future son in an Amazon Livestream today, Jan. 18th, and spoke to HollywoodLife.com about the journey to coming up with the perfect moniker! For the Bachelor Nation couple, the first name of Dawson was apparently a “no-brainer,” especially for Ashley! “My favorite movie since I was 10 years old is Titanic. When I was around 20, the name Dawson popped into my head one day, because it was like Jack Dawson, but I thought for a kid, I could just take the last part of the name,” the mom-to-be explained. “So, for the past 13 years, it’s been the boy name that I planned on naming a son.”
Ashley admitted she was “cool with naming a girl Dawson, too,” but Jared wasn’t as into the choice. Luckily, the pair found out they were expecting a boy, and Dawson it was! “I know it sounds too easy, but I was really all in on it being a boy’s name and if it was a girl, then we’d talked more about it,” she added. The couple chose “Demitri” as their future son’s middle name, a suggestion from Ashley’s sister.
Just less than a month from their February 10th due date, Jared and Ashley gushed over Amazon’s assistance in helping them prepare — as much as one can — for their first child. “I like that we can show off all the baby products that we’re getting on our Amazon Livestream, because so many women have reached out to me about my registry and what I’ve put on it, and other things that were recommended to me by other mommy influencers,” Ashley explained, while Jared added, “Being live on Amazon has always been really fun for us. I always talked about how the first Amazon live when we announced that we were having a kid was the first time I
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